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Join us on a tour of the shameful and awesome history of big ass cell phones of yesteryear.

For the longest time, liberals had cornered the market on embarrassingly hokey protest music. No longer. But it’s the combination of lameness and intolerance that makes this performance today on the steps of the Supreme Court so special.

Where Obama’s veto threat leaves CISPA.

The Obama campaign has pegged May 5 as the day the President “officially” hits the campaign trail

Turns out Newt Gingrich wins after all… at racking up the most campaign debt of any GOP candidate.

Is Marco Rubio this year’s high risk, high reward veep pick, a la Sarah Palin in 2008?

Here’s a good unpacking of the politics on both sides of the Violence Against Women Act renewal battle shaping up in Congress. Key substantive issues, mixed with political positioning on both sides.

David Taintor put together for us this amazing slideshow on early mobile phones. But what we planned as a reasonably authoritative history — with a few pics of the gargantuan devices we once considered “mobile” thrown in for fun — quickly turned into fun-only because, well, you’ll see from the pics. But here’s the key: almost all of the captions are original to the photo, recorded by whichever photog or photo agency first documented them. The captions are as good as the pics

The sun “sheds” its magnetic field on a fairly regular 11-year cycle, during which north and south polarity swap places. But this time around the reorientation is happening at different rates, with one pole reemerging faster than the other, and scientists don’t know why.